Friday, December 04, 2015
How group-selection runs deeper than Nietzsche's individualism or asceticism in religion
To update Nietzsche's pioneering idea that
morality is essentially the means of making something survive the
individual, which Nietzsche did not approve of, it is the altruism
inherent in group-selection that was and is the means of allowing
life to survive the individual.
This means that the individualism of
Nietzsche (however great the individual) and the individualism of
modern libertarianism do not go deep enough in examining human
nature. As the great E. O. Wilson said, “Within groups selfish
individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat
groups of selfish individuals.” And so the social
conquest of the earth emerged.
This
has meaning in defining human nature and political philosophy, where
kin-selection and group-selection more naturally favor ethnopluralism, ethnic
cultures, and ethnostates, and not one-world globalism, melting pots,
or the hyper-individualism of libertarianism.
Even
the deeper ascetic side of most religions favors the individual path
to the God or Father Within by ultimately rejecting all material life, which created
problems for later philosophers of theology in affirming social and
political life while attacking materialism.
This
contradiction is resolved in the Twofold Path of theological materialism where the Inward Path to the Father Within is conservatively retained
but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to
supermaterial Godhood, which requires the long-term protection of
both individual-selection and group-selection, as life continually
evolves toward higher things.
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